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to bet a better food option than mice?

ty

>>to bet a better food option than mice?
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>>ty

Personally I would rather raise rats than mice. Smell, handleability.

That said....take a rat and mouse that look like they are the same size, weigh them. The rat has more mass, to me that means more good stuff for the animal consuming them.

And to get a mouse adult size takes couple months. To get a rat to the same size takes weeks.

The only reason I raise mice is for tiny pinks for small species I feed and to sell off the rest to the store.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

And for many snakes, one mouse would not be enough, so would feed multiple prey items. As I understand it, the bone to meat ratio would be higher (less desireable) with several mice as compared to one rat of the same mass. Again, more of the good stuff for the snake. I've also heard the same size rat is leaner than the comparable mouse. Again, more of the good stuff!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
20.28 BRB
13.18 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

thank you both for your replies. they make perfect sense!

I recently learned this lesson.
I don't agree with handleability, as mice can't bite hard enough to hurt. A nice rat is the same as a nice mouse.
Also, if you feed live, a 2 week old rat can't hurt an adult corn/king, and a mouse of the same mass will draw blood every time.

>>I recently learned this lesson.
>>I don't agree with handleability, as mice can't bite hard enough to hurt. A nice rat is the same as a nice mouse.
>>Also, if you feed live, a 2 week old rat can't hurt an adult corn/king, and a mouse of the same mass will draw blood every time.

Man, I wish you would counsel my mice. My defensive moms can draw blood nicely all the time. And yes, a mouse can be just fine for a pet and handling. But I have blood draw by mice 10 times more than rats....not necessarily my mice but those at work all the time.

Feeding live, yes, if you have some rare enough circumstance for me to even feed live, this is true.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
Happy Bunny

Dunno what to tell ya.
This batch of mice (I start new every year.) have been model citizens.
I keep between 25-50 mice around depending on my needs, right now got 28 adults and prolly 20 in my weaned and unsexed tub.
Now, I sort my grow up tub into 'runs when I reach in and grab' and 'pick them up and they freeze'.
The ones that freeze when I pick them up have a chance to make it to adulthood, the ones that run do not.
Other than that, I got nothin'.